One of the “joys” of working as an IT consultant is that you get travel.. a lot. I saw this article in Lifehacker today, and I found myself interested in wanting to create a map that would show all the places I’ve been to.
So I first tried out Community Maps, but it somehow didn’t seem to be what I was looking for.
Then I saw in the comments on the original lifehacker article a mention of mypinmaps and it seems to be just what I was looking for.
The site is in horribly pre-alpha state (just look at the hompage!) and there isn’t much by way of web2.0 features like chicklets or feeds. But it does support adding multiple trips to a particular city (which Community Maps doesn’t have) and it’s just enough to meet my needs.
I have plugged in most of my travel (the dates on some of the older trips are a little dodgy) and with some highly abhorrent IFRAME coding, I have got my pinmap into the blog.
PS:mypinmap died a long time ago. After a while, I switched to Dopplr and although it’s missing some features I want, it’s a pretty good site overall. They recently launched a pinmap-style widget which you can see on my dopplr profile.
I think it’s pretty obvious from this site that I have a serious problem with getting things done – the first post you see on this site is a list of things I need to do!
And that is pretty much the story in other parts of my life as well – too many things competing for a limited attention and energy span.
I’ve been trying to use a small To-do widget, but I don’t think that’s nearly enough planned effort to whittle down my list.
So I’m going to start looking at GTD. I just checked and found the original GTD book is available in my community library. So the next time I stop by (it’s in 2 weeks time), I’m going to pick up the book and get started on getting my stuff organized.
I’m really nervous about this, in part because I’m very worried about not sticking to this program, as a lot of these kind of programs are heavily oriented towards people living in the US and thus become to difficult to implement if things are not available and that can be very discouraging.
But at the same time, I feel that my lack of getting things organized has really hurt my performance on the job and that is something that really needs to get fixed.
Here’s hoping this goes well!